SkillTagz Rolls Out Mobile App that Eliminates Hiring & Salary Biases

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SkillTagz is taking major strides towards bridging the pay gap that’s currently plaguing the global workforce.

Businesses are looking to reconcile disparities in compensation and underlying biases which are hindering performance. That’s why the Silicon-valley based HR tech firm is launching a new mobile app, also called SkillTagz, to collate payroll data, gain on-demand access to information, and make the entire process completely transparent.

This would help employers screen, assess, and reward talent without any bias or preconceived notions.

The company’s co-founder and CEO AK Mavani hopes the app will become the ‘new normal’ in the hiring technology space – with the same transformative impact in the case of global tech heavyweights, like LinkedIn or Facebook.

“Facebook won the social space and LinkedIn is lost trying to play in the space somewhere between professional recruiting and social. We are filling a market need by creating a mobile-first talent platform focused on hiring that promotes compensation transparency and fairer screening systems.”

Obtaining compensation data and related reports has always been a cumbersome (and expensive) task for HR teams. But in the absence of acknowledged norms, discrepancies begin to creep in and recruiters would lose their competitive edge.

With SkillTagz, getting hold of relevant data is as easy as selecting a job role and the location. This makes the app ideal for HR personnel, recruiters, managers, and benefit brokers looking to take fair, intelligent decisions that are at par with industry standards.

Lisa Dedrick is co-founder and CHRO at SkillTagz – she believes that wages must be aligned to the job role, regardless of who’s doing it.

“The recent wave of laws banning salary history questions has been a wake-up call for all companies. Companies should price the position and not the person. SkillTagz now makes it easy to compensate employees at market rate,” she explained.

The platform comes with several useful features. Along with latest compensation rates, employers can also screen candidates without viewing names or photographs – this would help eliminate bias around gender, race and ethnicities.

It’s only skillsets that matter – connecting to a candidate needs only a swipe (Tinder-style) and recruiters can proceed to chat and hire.

“Millennials are looking for positions on their phones, but the recruiting process is stuck in the 1990s, where long job descriptions are still the norm. It’s time to change this,” Mavani added.

The beta version of the SkillTagz app can be downloaded for both Android and iOS platforms.